Again, this is not a common thing for the public: aside from some attempts at "scenting" theater plays such as "de l'autre cote d'Alice" (Dominique Borg), some films like the famous "Polyester", or the open-air spectacle "Péplum" by the company "Royal de luxe", it still remains an experimental, embryonic art.

The reasons for the rarity or failure of this mode of olfactory expression are multiple:
      - technical difficulties of the diffusion and elimination of scents,
      - call to the composer of perfume only at the end of the show ignoring often enough the constraints linked to this media,
      - the fact that we are practically all "smell illiterates", under-developed because of the supremacy of the visual and auditory senses,
      - economic reasons also, since for the great perfume multinationals the profit-margin of this media is entirely negligible ...

Why then did I stubbornly try to defy this challenge of the olfactory spectacle?
Well, before all, because I have been for over thirty years a passionate lover of images and perfumes ; it was therefore logical that I seek to associate them in a common expression.

Being an independent perfume creator, the power to myself coordinate the visual, auditive and olfactive production, seemed to me the indispensable condition to the success of such a delicate symbiosis.

The other triggering factor has been my encounter with the poems of Octavio Paz, twenty years ago, and notably one of the most powerful: "Sun Stone". Moved at the deepest level by the inner strength and the wealth of visual and olfactive evocations, I dreamt to translate them into images, sounds and odors in a total spectacle where this poetry could make us vibrate even more profoundly.

After many incomplete attempts in the form of slide-shows, it was only last year that the new multimedia technologies have finally allowed me to realize my old dream. Indeed, simple superimposed multislide-shows did not suffice for translating the wealth of metaphors and their permanent mobility.

The narrative and linear movement of cinema was not adequate either ; rather, a poetical metamorphosis coming from the very inward of the subject was required and that, only the new digital imaging technics could give me.

Thanks to my computer I have thus been able to realize, mostly at night, real image-animations scanned and transformed, as well as completely synthetic creations, allowing me to retranscribe the subjective visions that Octavio Paz's verses inspired in me.

On 20 pages (584 verses = a venusian year) that count "Sun Stone", I have selected only the most expressive passages in terms of images and olfactory atmospheres, while respecting of course the essential framework of the poem.

The great difficulty has been to combine three different time logic:
   - that of words and sounds which is quasi-instantaneous,
   - that of images which take several seconds of deciphering,
   - finally those of scents that have a latency time of several minutes.

It was also imperative to find a middle way between the danger of a too literal illustration of the text and the necessary coherence of all implied senses, without which only confusion and sensory saturation would result.
(that underlies the importance for the olfactory composer to intervene from the beginning of the whole creation process)

To insure such a coherence it was essential that I could undertake constant back & forth changes between the chosen text, the elaboration of olfactory atmospheres that link harmoniously, the slow construction of video animations in synchronization with musical sequences and finally the choreographic concept which has to integrate totally within the picture.

This work, I realized alone in three months (mostly on nights and weekends) with my workstation, through hundreds of hours of digital processing. It's only once the video tape was finished that I was able to verify and really put in place the choreography with the assistance of Patricia Olive and Yann Lheureux, the dancers who interpreted it during its premiere at the "Desire, Passion and Love" Conference, Paris, 1998.